Date Published: March 2026
Author(s)
Michael Bartock (NIST), Jeffrey Cichonski (NIST), Murugiah Souppaya (NIST), Karen Kent (Trusted Cyber Annex), Parisa Grayeli (MITRE), Sanjeev Sharma (MITRE), Thomas McCarthy (AMI), Muthukkumaran Ramalingam (AMI), Presanna Raman (AMI), Stefano Righi (AMI), Jitendra Patel (AT&T), Bogdan Ungureanu (AT&T), Tao Wan (CableLabs), Matthew Hyatt (Cisco), Kori Rongey (Cisco), Dan Carroll (Dell Technologies), Steve Orrin (Intel), Corey Piggott (Keysight Technologies), Simon Hwang (MiTAC Computing), Gary Atkinson (Nokia), Rajasekhar Bodanki (Nokia), Robert Cranston (Nokia), Jorge Escobar (Nokia), Don McBride (Nokia), Aarin Buskirk (Palo Alto Networks), Bryan Wenger (Palo Alto Networks), Todd Gibson (T-Mobile)
This document introduces the white paper series titled Applying 5G Cybersecurity and Privacy Capabilities.
This series is being published by the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) 5G Cybersecurity
project. 5G introduced new security capabilities in the standards focusing on securing interoperable interfaces
rather than the underlying IT infrastructure, leaving gaps and options in specified cybersecurity and privacy
protections that complicate how organizations assess, deploy, and supplement security for 5G systems. The
5G Cybersecurity project implemented security capabilities within the 5G standards and for the underlying IT
infrastructure not specified in 5G standards and demonstrated their effectiveness. Each paper in the series
includes implementation guidelines and testbed-derived implementation findings for an individual technical
cybersecurity- or privacy-supporting capability available in 5G systems or their supporting infrastructures.
Each of the capabilities has been implemented in the NCCoE 5G Cybersecurity testbed as part of the NCCoE
project, and each white paper reflects the results of that implementation and its testing.
This document introduces the white paper series titled Applying 5G Cybersecurity and Privacy Capabilities.This series is being published by the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) 5G Cybersecurityproject. 5G introduced new security capabilities in the standards focusing on securing...
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This document introduces the white paper series titled Applying 5G Cybersecurity and Privacy Capabilities.
This series is being published by the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) 5G Cybersecurity
project. 5G introduced new security capabilities in the standards focusing on securing interoperable interfaces
rather than the underlying IT infrastructure, leaving gaps and options in specified cybersecurity and privacy
protections that complicate how organizations assess, deploy, and supplement security for 5G systems. The
5G Cybersecurity project implemented security capabilities within the 5G standards and for the underlying IT
infrastructure not specified in 5G standards and demonstrated their effectiveness. Each paper in the series
includes implementation guidelines and testbed-derived implementation findings for an individual technical
cybersecurity- or privacy-supporting capability available in 5G systems or their supporting infrastructures.
Each of the capabilities has been implemented in the NCCoE 5G Cybersecurity testbed as part of the NCCoE
project, and each white paper reflects the results of that implementation and its testing.
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Keywords
5G; cybersecurity; privacy
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